Buckle support



Nov. 1l, 1930. M. J. KEEVERS 1,781,014

BUCKLE SUEPORT Filed May 9, 1928 Patented Nov. 11, 1930 Nrr ; stares BUCKLE sorrow; A

Application and May 9,1925. se ial-n6. 276,256.

This invention relates to supports for attaching and holding buckles and similar ornaments upon shoes, slippers, pumps, and other types of'footwear, and in the nature of an improvement upon the supports shown in the patent to Fleming no. 1,326,153, dated December 23, 1919, and in my earlier Patent No. 1,377,253, datedv May'lO, 1921. In these earlier patents a buckle support is shown having two spaced and connected members or aws between which the vamp of a slipper may be received to detachably connect the support thereto. In these earlier patented structures the gripping surfaces of the jaws or space connected members which engage the vamps'are smooth so-that the support is held by the jaws. While such a construction has proved to be eminently satisfactory,

39 the extensive use into which these earlier buckle supports have gone, I have found that under some" conditions it is desirable to pro vide the'clamping jaws of the support with means which will insure a substantially per- 1nanent connection-between the holder and the vamp of the shoe or slipper, and thus to obviate entirely detachment or displacement of the support and consequently the buckle carried thereby. For instance, while the frictional engaging clamping jaws such patents aforesaid, are satisfactory, p'articu v larly when used to attach the-buckle to the vamp of walking shoes,eslippers or pumps wherein the leather is relatively thick or heavy, and in connection with which supports comparatively cheap buckles of cut steel,

rhinestone or thelike are used for-everyday wear, it is desirable, particularly with expensive precious metal or jeweled buckles, used for instance, on evening or dress slippers made of relatively thin material, such as satin, brocade or the like, to positively insure that such expensive buckle shall not become detached from the slipper and lost, which might possibly occur with the frictional gripping arrangement, especially under the stress and strain of dancing.

Therefore the present improverne t is directed to equipping the vamp engaging or inherent spring or resiliency of'the.

as evidenced by the possibility of accidental" as are illustrated inthe. l

' which the supportis The bucklesuppo t1 clampingmembers or jaws of the buckle hold} R I er with means for making a substantially permanent connectionbetween the holder or support and the vamp, the construction and 'a rs rangement being such that the greater the strain-or pullon the holder outward or away from the top of the clamping aws will other words, the mo vamp, the tighter the grip the material-in re the tendency of the buckle isto work off from the vamp, the more positive will be the j-awson the vamp.

gripping action of the -Vv ith" the 7 above recited objects and others of a similarnature in view my invention con.-

sists in the construction, combination and'arrangement of partsfset forth and falling Within the scope of the ap In the preferred embodiment oi pendedclaim.

the invention shown in the accompanying drawings Fig. 1 isa perspectiveviewof apiimpprovided with a buckle supported in accordance with my invention i I Fig. 2 is a perspe nament support to a shown in Fig.2;

ctive and' substantially front view showing the application of the. or-

pump 1 i v the support Fig. 4: is a rear elevation;

Fig; 5 is asectional er engaged in afragment of a vamp;

Fig. his apl'an view'of :the blank.

view showing thcholdf made; v or holder of the present invention is' fo'rmed' from an integralblank t. stamped for cut-from a sheet of thin metal lnto substantially the shape shown in Fig. 6.

It will be noted that this blank comprises a I base portion 1, having parallel slits. 2 tofo'rni the shank3, which connects the base portion with the upperor buckle supporting section 4,

the latter being slotted to form the opposite.-

ly' disposed buckle engagmg tongues--51 The "blank is cut toprovic e base portion 1 of the a pair of spaced pron gs 6, which are inclined or project upward and inward. Likewise,

this base portion of t stamped to form he blank is. indented or sm r nde Bibs n forming the blankinto thebuckle holder Qlf supp rt the base PQ T iQUQi a QLLfiO transversely along a fielde l ne diasen o th in? from ner ends of theislitsl2 thusforming a vamp engaging clipor clamp which is substantial ly U-shaped' in cross section, and which clamp is provided with inwardly projecting rounded nibs and upwardlyand inwardly extending prongs, which'l'atter are in linewith V the nibs, butlocated a little forward or offsection t of the holder "is'in'clined upwardly and rearwardly relative to the clip or clamp and consequently relative to the vamp of: the 2 7 shoe when the holder isjattached, as will be set to such nibs. ;The shank?) 'betweenxthe slits 2 is also ,bentupwardly and backwardly sojthat the buckle supporting member or shown by reference to Fig. 5. 'Theback or rear edge Softhe clip section of the holder is concaved, to conforintothe 'curvedfree edge of the vamp, while thejaws or members forming the clip or clamp arecurved trans-' versely to conform, tothe curvature of the ina step when the holder is in use, aswillbe seen by'reference to Fig. 5. p holder from the tonguesh are slightly upstruckfrom the surend portions ofythe-ordinary buckle bar 9,

r as indicatedin. the dotted lines'in Fig, 1. 7 It will-"thus be-noted that the buckle holder in the present: instance comprisesasan integral 'stru'cture, a vamp-clamping member and also to the curveof. the instep, and that, f one section of such clamp, in the present incstance, cthe' 'lower section, which fits against qtheinner side of the vamp, is formed with upwardly and inwardly inclined prongs,

4o fwhich will engageiwiththe material of the U-shapedin cross section and curved to conform to thecurvature' of the edge of the vamp slipper orpump at the inneri side 5 of the vamp, while the'upper'sectionof the clamp hasthe inwardly extending nibs. which will press against the material of the slipper; or o pump at the' oo uter face of thejvamp, and

'7 that the prongs, although inflinewith the holder isrnade, it is inherently resilient and V "Fig. 7 1.

nibs', are oppositely disposed relative to the latter and are located, forward "or off-set with respectth'eretq Itgwill further beobserved.

e that thisclipjor clampis integral with theupwardly and rearwardlyinclined buckle holding section to which the buckle may-be. attached by-means'of the oppositely disposed V tongues the bucklebar, as shown in Now, due'to" the thifimetal from which the the jaws will have a certain amount of resiliency orspring clamping action.

lInlus'e,f -the clip or clamp po-rtionf-of the holder is slipped onto the vamp of the shoe,

asshown' in Figs i and 5, and the sharpened prongs, owing toth'eir direction of projection, will not bitej'into the materialofthe'jvamp force orwedge the material of the-vamp tight I 1y against the] prongs, tightening of the biting actionof theprongs.

but will allow'the clamp to be slipped into position on the vamp. Should, however,

there be a tendency of the holder to work 7 loose', or the clamp to work up'and off from y;

the vamp, the direction of projection of the prongs will cause the latter to bite into the j {material of the vamp and hold'the clamp in p positiomand at the 'sametimethe tendency of l thenibs on theclamping section will be to I The result is that the greater the, tendency of the. holder to work off fromthe vamp the :tighterwill be the binding and biting action 'of the nibs and the prongs respectively,and

e thus assisting in the a th, ircombined action will insurelagainst the} I accidental displacement of the-buckle sup-Y port. Owing to theresilient-nature of the material of the holderthe jaws ma b bent slightly in applying theholder and then pressed toward each other orv tightened, as

will be readily understood. a

While I have herein shown :andjdescribed one embodiment of my invention, 'I 'wish it to be'understood thatfthe same is notlimited departing, from the spirit of the invention or exceeding the scope of the appended claim.

to all the precise detailsof construction: here-,1" in setforth by way of illustration, asmodifi cation and variation may 'be made-without For example, as the. present'in'vention ispar ticularly adapted to theconstructio'n of the u cl'amp or clip section of the supportas c n, L tradistinguished' from the upper :or buckle supporting section. thereof, the invention is I not limited touse vvithIsu hraibuckIe supporte ing'section aslis shown herein astheflatter may be-o f any suitable'construction, andjthe buckle may besecured to the holder in any desired manner either permanent or def tachable.

What lvelaimis i In a supportoftheclass described, avamp embracing clamping-section comprising two aw's, an upperland alower aw, adapted re .{spe'ctively to fit over and undera'vamp, the upper iaw'havinga vamp engaging nib, and

jthelowerj aw having a vampengaging prong, the nib and the prong beingolfset with respect to each other and so relativelylocated that the nib tends to causethe prong to -penetrate the materialof the; vamp upon attempted move I ment'of'said; support off the vamp; Signed at New York city, in the county of ay Of Mar'ch, A. D. 1928.

12 6 f New York and State of; New York, this 9th MATTHEW J. KEEvERsLj 

